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noun

Twilight n.

The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

Faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed. "As when the sun... from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds." "The twilight of probability."

adjective

Twilight adj.

Seen or done by twilight.

Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure. "O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves."

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Etymology of 'Twilight'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Twilight" Quotes from Famous Books

... story, sir,' said Inspector Wield, of the Detective Police, who, in company with Sergeants Dornton and Mith, paid us another twilight visit, one July evening; 'and I've been thinking you might like ...

— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens

... uplands where the lapwings stand on the parallel ridges of the ploughed field like a drilled company; if they rise they wheel as one, and in the twilight move across the fields in bands invisible as they sweep near the ground, but seen against the sky in rising over the trees and the hedges. There is a plantation of fir and ash on the slope, and a narrow waggon-way enters it, and seems ...

— The Open Air • Richard Jefferies

... ride were most extraordinary. As the sun sank, and twilight shaded into night, the atmosphere was filled with a hazy dimness; not merely fog, nor smoke, nor yet a pall of suspended dust, but rather what one might expect in a blending of those three. Only a tinge of moonlight from above softened the dull hue. It was not darkness as night usually is ...

— Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 - A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method • William Audley Maxwell

... it seemed to me, miles of silence and of twilight, and all the time my blood hammered at my temples and my throat grew dry as I thought of the ordeal that stood before me. To whom was I thus ...

— The Man with the Clubfoot • Valentine Williams

... Dunstaffnage; and enough left us as we entered the Sound, to show, and barely show, the Lady Rock, famous in tradition, and made classic by the pen of Campbell, raising its black back amid the tides, like a belated porpoise. And then twilight deepened into night, and we went snorting through the Strait with a stream of green light curling off from either bow in the calm, towards the high dim land, that seemed standing up on both sides ...

— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

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